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Americans better off because of ACA, Democrats say

By Rich Daly | September 05, 2012 | Basic Web

In the face of a slow economic recovery, the healthcare law gives Democrats a way to show the electorate that they are better off than they were four years ago, party leaders told party activists Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
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Drug industry was at center of reform dealing, GOP investigators say

By Rich Daly | May 31, 2012 | Basic Web

Among all health industry groups with which the White House was negotiating deals leading up to passage of the 2010 healthcare law, drugmakers were seen by Washington Democrats as the key group, according to a yearlong investigation by House Republican staff.
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Magazine
Thrown a curve | CMS' actuaries: Healthcare spending will continue to increase, despite reform law promises

By Rich Daly | August 01, 2011 | Print Magazine

The landmark 2010 healthcare law will not slow the nation's ballooning healthcare spending in the coming decade, and it will drive spending away from hospitals and toward physicians and pharmaceuticals, according to projections from the government's healthcare actuaries.
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Window to Washington Blog
Bureaucratic blues: faceless but with feelings

By Rich Daly | July 19, 2011

Those faceless healthcare bureaucrats have feelings too, folks. And the passion of one of them came shining through Monday at an otherwise dry Washington think tank event.
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Window to Washington Blog
Democrats to McKinsey: 'Prove it'

By Rich Daly | June 17, 2011

Democrats from the White House on down are pushing back hard on a recent study concluding that up to 30% of employers providing health insurance coverage to 180 million workers will drop it after more provisions of the 2010 federal healthcare law are implemented in 2014.
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